Asia Minor


Travels in Europe, Asia Minor and Arabia By John Griffiths (M. D.) (1805)

At convenient distances through all Asia Minor and indeed wherever I have halted through the Turkish dominions the erection of fountains as well as caravanserais denotes the attention which has been paid to the necessities of Mussulmauns. Many of the former are built with elegance and ornamented with inscriptions in gilded letters allusive to the founder as well as to the principal article of the Mahommedan faith. An iron bowl suspended by a chain is always ready to assist the thirsty and a flowing stream near it to supply their beasts. Very generally a hut at no great distance is provided with coffee bread eggs and a distilled spirit they call rakee or if the pious Mussulmaun proprietor should be scrupulous on the subject of the last article the traveller has only to wait until he meets with a Greek who in every village may be found to furnish this pernicious though on such occasions almost irresistible luxury.
Quotations
 Chapter 2 
“Dear mama, only think, my cousin cannot put the map of Europe together— or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers in Russia— or, she never heard of Asia Minor—or she does not know the difference between water–colours and crayons!— How strange!—Did you ever hear anything so stupid?”
 

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